2015 Backus Hospital Medical Staff

Anesthesiology

Jeremy Burke, MD
Cynthia Campbell, MD
James M. D’Amato, MD
Gregory Fauteux, MD
Adam D. Goldstein, MD
Daniel Hseuh, MD
Yong Jo, MD
Mohan Kasaraneni, MD
Michael Loiacono, DO
Frank Ocasio, MD
Mary Ann Pudimat, MD
Paul Pudimat, MD, Chief
Robert Ringering, DO
John Satterfield, MD
Angela Smith, DO
Lora Stephens, DO

Cardiology

Amr Atef, MD
Ramak (Robert) Attaran, MD, Consulting
Paige Brennan, MD
J. Chua Chiaco, MD
Jai Chakrabarti, MD
Gilbert Ching, MD
Mark Fisherkeller, MD
John Foley, MD
Michael Fucci, DO
Steven Goldblatt, MD
James Healy, MD
Ting Li, MD, PhD
Adam Niedelman, MD
Mridula Rai, MD
Christopher Regan, MD
Jeffrey Seltzer, MD
Steven Zweibel, MD

Dentistry

Cristina Pas Baens, DMD
Kirk Engel, DMD
Richard Martin, MD, DMD
Richard Snayd, DDS
Robert Strick, DMD, Chief

Dermatology

Kirkland Lau, DO
Howard W. Rogers, MD, PhD
R. D. Tanskley, MD

Diagnostic Imaging

Jill Bergson, MD
James Burch, MD
Felicia Cuomo, MD
Ajay Dalal, MD
William Donovan, MD, MPH
Gregory Dubel, MD
Nathaniel Dueker, MD
Thomas Fay, MD
Richard Gessman, MD
Christopher Hobbie, MD, Consulting
Bryan Jay, MD
Phillip Kohanski, MD, Chief
Igor Latich, MD
Herb Lustberg, MD
Justin Routhier, MD
Stacy L. Spooner, MD
Sarah T. Stewart, MD
Sumathi Wable, MD, Consulting
Mark Weiss, MD, Consulting

Emergency Services

Nader Bahadory, DO, Chief
Jeffrey Bernstein, MD
Thomas Ceddia, MD
Robert Dinwoodie, DO
Daniel Fagnant, DO
Fred Fenton, DO
Richard Goulding, MD
Andrew Griscom, MD
Marc Guttman, MD
William E.J. Horgan, MD
Scott W. Jolin, MD
Kenneth Larsen, DO
David McCann, MD
Kyle McClaine, MD
John McCue, MD
Mark Muetterties, MD
Lindsay Roberts, MD
Richard Ryan, MD
Robert Sidman, MD, Chairman, Medical Services, Acting Chief Occupational Medicine
Nathan Siegel, MD
Mary Ann Smith, MD
Devin Sokolowski, MD
Matthew Spates, MD
John Stallard, MD
Vivian Weinberger, DO
Gregory Young, MD

Endocrinology

Constantin Carseli, MD
Ria M. Lim, MD
Socorro Vargas, MD

Family Medicine

Leah Briones, MD
Helar Campos, MD
Colleen Casey, DO
Arabinda Chatterjee, MD
Nita Chatterjee, MD
Bert Coppotelli, MD
Mark DePonte, MD, Chief
John Greeley, MD
Daniel Hartman, MD
Luisa Hiendlmayr, MD
William Hernandez, MD
Yogesh Katechia, MD
Christopher Kolker, MD
Jyothirmayee Korivi, MD
Linda Lacerte, MD
Anisha Parekh, MD
Tony Schwartz, MD
Jennifer Varghese, MD
Claire M. Warren, MD
Wenying Yan, MD

Gastroenterology

Abera Abay, MD
Tonya E.L. Hall, MD
Ashan Manohar, MD
Jefrey Salek, MD
You S. Sang, MD
Shivani Sood, MD, MPH
Kolala Sridhar, MD

General Surgery

Sultan Ahamed, MD
Cristobal Alvarado, MD
Sergio R. Casillas, MD
David Coletti, MD
Jeffrey Goldblatt, MD
Kathleen Kurowski, MD
John Pagnozzi, MD
Mark Tousignant, MD, Chief
Mark Tramontozzi, MD
John Wesolek, MD

Gynecology Oncology

Amy Brown, MD
Paul DiSilvestro, MD, Consulting
Cornelius Granai III, MD, Consulting
Cara Mathews, MD, Consulting
Ashley Stuckey, MD, Consulting

Hospitalist

Adedotun Adebamiro, MD
Setareh L. Balazadeh, MD
Jennifer Bellino, MD
Xiaoyan Chen, MD
Stuart Deglin, MD
Vanessa Evardone, MD
Rommel Geronimo, MD
Maria Sabsay Goral, MD
Juan Gabriel Guillot, MD
Mariano Librojo, MD
Zhenxiang Liu, MD, PhD
Shuaike Ma, MD
Yazeed Maghaydah, MD
Naomi Nomizu, MD, Chief
Joseph Perez, MD
Andrzej P. Porebski, MD
Manisha Prakash, MD
Ataul M. Qureshi, MD
Shareen Rodrigues, MD
Khurram Shahzad, MD
James E. Sullivan, MD, Chief Internal Medicine

Infectious Disease

Michael J. Rajkumar, MD
Clifford Stirba, MD

Internal Medicine

Jan J. Akus, MD
Terry Baksh, MD
James Bucci, MD
Amanda Conti, MD
Mary Cummings Satti, MD
Steven M. Curland, MD
Jorge Dabdoub, MD
Paul Deutsch, MD, RPh
Stephen Ducey, MD
Ilona Figura, MD
Katherine Flanagan, MD
Liliana Galan, MD
Christin Homiski, MD
Cornelio Hong, MD
Catherine E. Hylwa, MD
Mahesh Kabadi, MD
Hanna Kackielo, MD
Stephen J. Kaye, MD
Paqui Motyl, MD
Mohammad Qureshi, MD
Yahya Qureshi, MD
Peter H. Shea, MD
Priya Tandon, MD
Kartik Viswanathan, MD
Salman Zafar, MD
Uzma Zaidi, MD

Maternal Fetal Medicine

Adam Borgida, MD, Consulting
Stephen Carr, MD, Consulting
Elisa Gianferrari, MD, Consulting
Jennifer Park, MD, Consulting
Katharine D. Wenstrom, MD, Consulting

Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

Abbot Laptook, MD, Consulting
James Padbury, MD, Consulting
Steven Peterec, MD, Consulting

Nephrology

Jay Ginsberg, MD
Mihkel J. Haus, MD
Mihaela O. Negulescu, MD
Thomas C. Peter, MD
Altaf Rasool, MD

Neurological Surgery

Gregory Criscuolo, MD
Camille G. Salame, MD, MS, Chief

Neurology

Anthony G. Alessi, MD
Maria Moro de Casillas, MD
Emily Gilmore
Glenn Kolluri, MD, Consulting
Jorge Mendizabal, MD, Consulting
Royya Modir, MD, Consulting
Anis Racy, MD
Kamaldeen Saldin, MD, Consulting
Jason Shen, MD, Consulting
David J. Shiling, MD
Derek Smith, MD, Chief
John Tauro, DO, DC
David Tinklepaugh, MD
Edward Yu, MD, Consulting

Obstetrics & Gynecology

Julie Belcher, MD
Stephen Briggs, MD
Matthew W. Brown, MD, Chief
Yu Ming Victor Fang, MD, Consulting
Suzelle Hendsch, MD, Consulting
David Kalla, MD
Christopher Nold, MD, Consulting
Kellen   Sikora, MD
Melissa Welch, MD
Carol A. Wheeler, MD, Consulting

Occupational Medicine

Robert Creutz, MD
Barbara Deindorfer, MD
Randall Graff, MD
Kathleen Katamura, MD

Oncology / Hematology

Anca Bulgaru, MD
Mandeep Dhami, MD
Jeffrey Gordon, MD
Mithlesh Govil, MD
Kandhasamy Jagathambal, MD
Dinesh Kapur, MD
Stephen Lattanzi, MD
Dennis Slater, MD
Jie Yang, MD

Ophthalmology

Nauman Chaudhry, MD
Juner Marianela Colina-Biscotto, MD
Kevin B. Cranmer, MD, Chief
Jeffrey A. Hertz, MD
Peter S. McKay, MD
David Oakley, MD
Anish U. Shah, MD
Ron W. Slocumb, MD

Orthopedic Surgery

Ammar Anbari, MD
Nicole L. Arcand, MD
William Cambridge, MD
John J. Giacchetto, MD
Daniel Glenney, MD
Michael Halperin, MD
Tarik Kardestuncer, MD, Chief
Frank Maletz, MD
Joseph Noonan, MD
Kenneth Paonessa, MD
Jeffrey Salkin, MD
Scott J.C. Stanat, MD
Patricia A. Stuart, MD

Otolaryngology

Jerilyn S. Allen, MD
William T. Culviner, MD
Steven J. Green, MD
Gregory T. Lesnik, MD, Chief
Thomas H. Lesnik, MD
Stephen M. Rouse, MD

Pain Management

Edward P. Hargus, MD
John J. Paggioli, MD

Pathology

Catherine M. Breen, MD, MPH
Jila Khorsand, MD
Svetlana Kondratiev, MD
Timothy Pal, MD
Jiafan Qi, MD
Mirela Stancu, MD, Chief
Olga Weinberg, MD
Anna Vischio, MD
Gengsheng Yu, MD, PhD

Pediatrics

Nancy K. Cusmano, MD
Mary Eslick, MD
Laurentiu Galan, MD
Richard W. Geller, MD
Richard Lavoie, MD
Andrea McCullough-Hlobik, DO
Christina McLean, MD
Ravi Prakash, MD
David Schoon, MD
Timothy Sullivan, MD
Rachna Walia, MD, Chief
Ramindra Walia, MD

Pediatric Cardiology

John Fahey, MD, Consulting
Alan H. Friedman, MD, Consulting

Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery

Richard Agag, MD, Consulting
Thomas C. Cherry, Jr., MD
David Greenspun, MD, Consulting
John C. Lee, MD
Vinod V. Pathy, MD 

Podiatry

Joseph W. DiFrancesca, DPM
Jeffrey Kierstein, DPM
Eric Levine, DPM
Anthony Morgan, DPM
Christopher Payette, DPM
Edward Tarka, DPM

Psychiatry

Brian Benton, MD,Chief
Barclay Caras, MD
Tiwalola Kolawole, MD
Gene Maran, MD
Mahmoud S. Okasha, MD

Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine

Mari Adachi, MD
Saima Ansari, MD
Priya Bakaya, MD
Thinesh Dahanayake, MD
Paul Greif, MD
Steven Powell, MD
Olimpia Radu, MD
Donna Romito, DO
Setu Vora, MD

Rehabilitative Medicine

Gabriel Abella, MD
Joseph O’Keefe, MD, Consulting
Mohammed Pasha, MD
Joseph Peters, MD, Consulting

Rheumatology

Robert Levin, MD, Consulting
Harjinder Chowdhary, MD
Sandeep Varma, MD

Therapeutic Radiology

Nicole Anderson, MD
Helaine Bertsch, MD
Stephen Boyd, MD
Robert Dowsett, MD
Neal Goldberg, MD
Stephen Hauser, MD
Anwar Khan, MD
Susan Kim, MD
Kenneth Leopold, MD
Sheida  Mani, MD
Andrew Salner, MD
Joseph Weissberg, MD

Thoracic-Vascular Surgery

Michael Deren, MD
Mario Katigbak, MD, Consulting

Urology

Franklin P. Friedman, MD, Chief
T. Casey McCullough, DO
Brandon Stahl, MD

Honorary

Taher U. Akhand, MD
Donald A. Amaro, DMD
Lakshmi Basu, MD
Michael G. Betten, MD
Larry Coletti, MD
Carl C. Conrad, MD
Robert E. Crootof, MD
Kenneth M. Cynn, MD
James A. Dyer, DMD
Malcolm S. Edgar, Jr., MD
Sa-id Esfahanian, MD
Gerald R. Fabry, MD
Christopher C. Glenney, MD
Leonard A. Greene, MD
Salim S. Isa, MD
Manuel E. Kadish, MD
Nagireddy Kamireddy, MD

Honorary (cont)

A. Joseph Kantharaj, MD
Morris E. Katz, MD
Robert Kerrigan, MD
Eliahu Koren, MD
Woong B. Lee, MD
Jeremiah J. Lowney, DDS
Gowd S. Nagaraj, MD
Katherine M. Prioli, MD
Koon J. Rhee, MD
William G. Richeimer, MD
Howard B. Segal, MD
K. S. Taylor, MD
Clemencio B. Torres, MD
W. Gordon Van Nes, MD
Hany S. Wahba, MD
William A. Wainright, MD